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Great comic over at Joy Of Tech.

Circuit City is now selling the iPod Shuffle online, with both the 512MB and 1GB versions of the Shuffle marked as immediately available.
Update: Spoke too soon. Both are now marked as “SOLD OUT”.

Perhaps this is nothing new for you, the intelligent readership of The Apple Blog – but it was new to me…
Ted over at PowerSDK posts about the death of his wife’s iPod. Sure, we’ve all heard about these things before, that’s nothing new – but the interesting part is where he includes the instructions [...]

It’s that time of the year when we’re looking to increase the size of our staff by 2 (doesn’t every company have that?). We’re in need of 2 writers who have the skills to pay the bills. Also, if you’ve got sweet graphic design skills, we’ve got something up our sleeve that we could use [...]

Recently, I was fortunate enough to get a Cingular-branded Treo 650 for my birthday. This was an upgrade from my Treo 270, and included a number of new features including Bluetooth and an SD slot for PalmOne peripherals and SD memory cards. Since I’m a geek, the first question I had was “Can I get [...]

Seems that someone at Apple slipped-up and sent a periodic email to consumers in Great Britian, and it included the box art/logo for the upcoming Tiger release.

The inclusion was apparently a mistake, as subsequent emails featured different graphics, omitting the Tiger box.
Basically, it looks like the steel X that has been on the Tiger CDs [...]

The standard Mail application is what many people use, but it’s far from perfect. We’re going to take a look at some of the more annoying features, or lack thereof.

The awesome team from Panic have released version 3.0 of their award winning FTP client Transmit. Improvements include support for FTPS, column view, tabbed connection, a sidebar, better synchronization features, WebDAV support, and tons of others. I will be posting a more in depth review as soon as I have time to do so.

TiVo CEO, annoyed by “Windows nightmares”, switches to Mac, his IT department follows

The Mac mini is everybodies favorite HTPC to be these days with numerous projects working on software for it. Well now someone has tossed together a great looking docking station concept for it. This is really cool but they missed a few things. Like A/V capture solutions, and a Firewire port or two on the [...]

My comments about the books from iPhoto 5 sparked a lot of feedback. Thanks to everyone who left comments; The insight, personal experiences, and information were great to read.
As promised, here are my impressions from the book I ordered last week and received last night:
The quality was slightly better in my book, than the [...]

Engadget is reporting about the new Mini Skirt Blue-glo from Plasticsmith.

It’s really cool looking. Of course first thought is, without a usb or firewire hub (or both) built in, it’s pretty useless. But hopefully that’s to come soon. Some of the commenters had some cool ideas on Engadget’s posting as well. [...]

Apparently, everyone was a bit pre-mature to report that the Motorola E1060 was the long awaited iTunes-Phone. It seems that the E1060 was just a demo model to show off the software, and not the actual phone. I was under the impression that you release a product WHEN ITS READY, not when its still under [...]

Finally Apple is opening a retail store in my home state of Oklahoma. The new store is going to be located in Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City. At this time it is unclear if this is going to be a full sized or a mini store. I am semi-surprised with the location. I figured [...]

Apple has posted an open call to all switchers to send their stories in. Here is a blurb from the page:
Let us know what made you get a Mac instead of a PC. Did you fall in love with your iPod and then buy a Mac? Were you looking for a computer that’s more stable [...]

Sony just announced it will be releasing a cell phone that will apparently compete with the “iTunes Phone” from Motorola.
It’ll be named after Sony’s long dominant (until the iPod came along) Walkman line of products. And get this:
It’ll play mp3 and AAC files! So resumably you could move your iTMS purchased music to [...]

In DAILY FEEDING, I’ll attempt to help you simplify some of the more daily and mundane tasks of computing. To kick things off, I’ll start with protecting your data through regular backups.

I consider myself somewhat of an expert on this topic – why? I’ve lost way too much data due to poor back-up practices. But the past few months have brought some break-throughs that will hopefully help you avoid my mistakes.

I actually lucked out about 5 months ago: I’d just run my first backup of my Home folder (after having my powerbook for almost 2 years), when I hosed myself the very next day. Thank goodness I’d made a backup the night before! And oh yes – the biggest issues arise from user-error, and I generally know what I’m doing on a computer…

Raise your hand if you’ve ordered a book from iPhoto.
My father-in-law ordered one right after installing and opening iPhoto 5. He got it in about a week later and called me. He was not impressed (mind you, he’s a huge Apple nut). I figured he was being overly critical and that it [...]

While Hewlett Packard is having a bad week or so, Apple stands to gain some firepower. HP’s senior vice president of marketing, Allison Johnson will be moving to Apple to breath some new life into Apple marketing. In her new position, she will be responsible for the Apple’s global advertising.
Don’t get me wrong, [...]

Most Computer Systems ought to be protected from their users. It’s crazy-easy to do on a Mac.